Liberty County Community Input

Economic Development (private business)

• New Main Street businesses (restaurant, motel, tire repair services)
• Access to affordable business financing
• Industrial parking

Employment

• Improved infrastructure to capture and sell wind energy
• More housing and more affordable housing to attract new residents
• Caught in a spiral: “Business owners say no reliable help, no employees; citizens say no jobs available.”

Health

• Slow Medicare payments/cutbacks are forcing local hospital to “eat” costs
• Limit liability to reduce cost of insurance
• Local training for health care professionals
• Bring chiropractor back to town

Housing

• Seek financing for demolition of “eyesore” housing
• Seek financial group to invest in new housing
• Create more affordable low-income housing

Infrastructure

• Prepare for the expansion of Bakken activity, the coming “boom”
• Hire more police
• Improve the jail
• Improve sewer system
• Build sidewalks

Parks & Recreation

• Pave roads to Lake Elwell

Other Ideas

• Seek ways to keep kids here or bring them back (summertime youth activities, job opportunities)
• Build capacity to care for elders
• Market vacant lots to people from outside the area
• Market slower pace of life to people from outside the area
• Market tourist opportunities (we are in an ideal central location)